The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 72
The brothers launched a small boat, took some of their valuable goods with them, rowed to shore and went up to the palace.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: launch, take, row, go up · To what, where: small boat, some, shore
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 launched | nsubj |
| 3 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boat | amod |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 launched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 launched | parataxis |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 goods | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goods | nmod:poss |
| 12 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goods | amod |
| 13 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rowed | punct |
| 17 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rowed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rowed | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | the brothers | a small boat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | some | with jewels = jewel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 3 | row | past | shore | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | go up | past | to the palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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